You've heard of a logjam.
Our country is in a God-jam. We have a massive accumulation of rejection toward anything God, and in particular, anything Jesus.
Aren't autistic children in a communication-jam? There seems in their sweet lives a blockage from inside their heads to the outside world. One mom lists her autistic son's characteristics: rocking [back and forth], pacing, [a] strange gait, sleepless nights, flapping of hands and no friends.
Though we do not understand what is behind autistic communication blockage, the characteristics accumulate and create nearly impossible demands and grief on families.
But can we understand spiritually autistic blockage? While the slide into autism is completely involuntary, our slide into the rejection of all things God and Jesus is intentional. We choose our God-jam by simply looking the other way, chasing other gods, changing laws and ethos to eliminate long-standing country-wide traditions that honor God, and persecuting those who would try to keep him front and center.
Our spiritually autistic characteristics see us rock back and forth between other spiritual aids (astrology, etc), pace with worry as we handle things on our own, walk with a gait away from God, lie awake with fear of the future, flap our hands at circumstances that we cannot control, and remain friendless with God.
I wonder if we look as autistic to God as these autistic-afflicted children appear to us.
We can emerge from our self-induced affliction, praying that autistic children may, too, someday emerge from their involuntary entrapment.
Lord, how do we begin?
Thanks to Aneta Harris for the listing of her son, Curry's, autistic characteristics. Thank you, God, for his apparent healing.
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